Development on loan

• Verfasst von: Loubere, Nicholas [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Development on loan
• Titelzusatz: microcredit and marginalisation in rural China
• Verf.angabe: Nicholas Loubere
• Verlagsort: Amsterdam
• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• E-Jahr: 2019
• Jahr: [2019]
• Umfang: 283 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 24 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Transforming Asia
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references
• ISBN: 978-94-6372-251-3
• ISBN: 978-90-485-4427-1
• ISBN: 94-6372-251-3
• ISBN: 90-485-4427-0
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1686940238

Abstract

"Key to China's plans to promote rural development is the de-marginalisation of the countryside through the incorporation of rural areas into the urban-based market-oriented financial system. For this reason, Chinese development planners have turned to microcredit--i.e. the provision of small-scale loans to 'financially excluded' rural households--as a means of increasing 'financial consciousness' and facilitating rural de-marginalisation. Drawing on years of in-depth fieldwork in rural China, this book examines the formulation, implementation and outcomes of government-run microcredit programmes in China---illuminating the diverse roles that microcredit plays in local processes of socioeconomic development and the livelihoods of local actors. It details how microcredit facilitates de-marginalisation for some, while simultaneously exacerbating the marginalisation of others; and exposes the ways in which microcredit and other top-down development strategies reflect and reinforce the contradictions and paradoxes implicit in rural China's contemporary development landscape."--